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Postpartum Support: Can we Facilitate the Transition to Motherhood?

NCT00857051 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 552

Last updated 2009-09-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

We are conducting a study to look interventions that may reduce stress in the postpartum period for first- time mothers. One of these interventions is an educational film that describes the common stressors that first-time parents go through in the early postpartum period. The other is a hotline service that women can call at anytime during the first 3 months postpartum to ask about problems she or the baby may be experiencing.

Conditions

  • Stress

Interventions

OTHER

Hotline Service

A 24 hour hotline to answer questions about baby care or mother self-care. Hotline will be answered by a midwife and answers will be based on algorithms.

OTHER

Film

A DVD addressing common stressors in the early postpartum.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wellcome Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • American University of Beirut Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hibah Osman, MD, MPH · American University of Beirut Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-03-31
Primary Completion
2009-07-31
Completion
2009-07-31

Countries

  • Lebanon

Study Locations

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